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A guy in Wichita told me our ADS-B test sets get sent in every 24 months, and I found the FAA memo to back it
Pulled up AC 20-165B after a hangar talk in Wichita and it says the same thing, so half our shelf units are out of date and I didn't know it. How are you all tracking calibration dates across multiple tail numbers?
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west.henry27d ago
Man, that binder story hits close to home because we had the same thing happen when our shop went from two tails to five. A shared sheet with the send date plus a phone alarm has been the only thing that keeps us honest, and yeah, one person has to own it or it falls apart. AC 20-165B doesn't leave much room to argue, so the reminder system is really the whole ballgame.
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willow_morgan27d ago
A buddy of mine ran a small shop with six planes and found out the hard way when a ramp check caught two units past the 24 month window. He had a paper log in a binder that stopped getting updated after they picked up the third tail number, and nobody wanted to be the one to chase it down. What finally worked for him was a shared spreadsheet with the send-in date and a phone reminder set 60 days out, sounds dumb but it caught two units last year before they lapsed. AC 20-165B is pretty clear on the interval, the hard part is just having one person own the list.
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